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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Melancholy Objects.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Photographs appropriate place and identity by the act of _________ reproduction, according to Sontag.
(a) Proper.
(b) Sharp.
(c) Mimetic.
(d) Truthful.

2. Surrealism is bound by ________ and is dated in its contents, according to Sontag.
(a) Class.
(b) Frame.
(c) Authors.
(d) Art.

3. Arbus presented her subjects as ______________ who were a part of the universal, the opposite of Whitman's ideas.
(a) Individuals.
(b) Families.
(c) Groups.
(d) Freaks.

4. ________ Whitman is the focus of this chapter, even though he was not a photographer in his time.
(a) Phillip.
(b) Joe.
(c) Terrence.
(d) Walt.

5. Surrealism seeks to document and to reconnoiter ___________, much in the same way that photography does.
(a) Class.
(b) Animals.
(c) Books.
(d) Society.

Short Answer Questions

1. Eventually, according to this chapter, _______________ will be photographed.

2. The cave allegory speaks of __________ chained to a wall within the story itself.

3. Photography yields to viewers _____________ to look and to act as a sort of voyeur without repercussion.

4. One of the things that Sontag reminds the reader is that Surrealism is not a __________ art form.

5. Photographs become ______________; they record the injuries time does to objects.

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